In all of his works - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those, over 1,700 were first record in print by Shakespeare. Most of these words may have existed in languages like French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin for hundreds or thousands of years. Shakespeare took these words and made them sound more English and added them into the written English language. Borrowing or adopting a word or a phrase from another language, is known as neologizing. Well we cannot say for certain that Shakespeare invented these words (since the oral use is unrecorded), according to the Oxford English Dictionary we can say this is the first recorded written usage of these words.

Here is a list of words that we use in our daily speech that were brought into usage by Shakespeare:

abstemious

academe

accommodation

accused

addiction

admirable

advertising

aerial

alligator

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amazement

anchovy

apostrophe

arch-villain

to arouse

assassination

auspicious

bachelorship

backing

bandit

barefaced

baseless

beached

bedazzled

bedroom

belongings

to besmirch

birthplace

to blanket

bloodstained

blusterer

bold-faced

bottled

bump

buzzer

to cake

to castigate

to cater

clangor

to champion

circumstantial

cold-blooded

coldhearted

compact

to comply

to compromise

to cow

consanguineous

control

countless

courtship

critic

critical

cruelhearted

Dalmatians

dauntless

dawn

day's work

deafening

to denote

depository

discontent

design

dexterously

dialogue

disgraceful

dishearten

to dislocate

distasteful

distracted

divest

domineering

downstairs

droplet

to drug

to dwindle

to educate

to elbow

embrace

employer

employment

engagement

to enmesh

to ensnare

enrapt

enthroned

epileptic

equivocal

eventful

excitement

expedience

exposure

eyeball

eyedrops

eyesore

fanged

farmhouse

far-off

fashionable

fathomless

fitful

fixture

flawed

flowery

foppish

fortune-teller

to forward

foul-mouthed

freezing

frugal

full-grown

gallantry

generous

gloomy

glow

gnarled

go-between

to gossip

gust

half-blooded

hint

hob-nails

hobnob

homely

honey-tongued

hoodwinked

hostile

hot-blooded

housekeeping

howl

to humor

hunchbacked

to hurry

ill-tempered

immediacy

impartial

to impede

import

immediacy

importantly

inaudible

inauspicious

indistinguishable

inducement

investment

invitation

invulnerable

jaded

Judgement Day

juiced

kissing

lackluster

ladybird

to lament

to lapse

to launder

laughable

leaky

leapfrog

lonely

long-legged

love letter

to lower

luggage

lustrous

madcap

majestic

majestically

malignancy

manager

marketable

militarist

mimic

misgiving

misplaced

to misquote

money's worth

monumental

moonbeam

mortifying

motionless

mountaineer

multitudinous

neglect

to negotiate

new-fallen

new-fangled

nimble-footed

noiseless

to numb

obscene

obsequiously

outbreak

to outdare

to outgrow

to outweigh

over-cool

overgrowth

over-ripened

over-weathered

overview

pageantry

pale-faced

to pander

pedant

perplex

perusal

to petition

pious

posture

premeditated

priceless

Promethean

protester

published

puking

puppy-dog

on purpose

quarrelsome

questing

in question

radiance

to rant

rancorous

raw-boned

reclusive

reinforcement

reliance

remorseless

reprieve

resolve

restoration

restraint

retirement

revolting

to rival

rival

roadway

rumination

sacrificial

sanctimonious

satisfying

savage

savagery

schoolboy

scrubbed

scuffle

seamy-side

to secure

shipwrecked

shooting star

shudder

silk

stocking

silliness

skim milk

to sneak

soft-hearted

spectacled

splitting

sportive

to squabble

stealthy

stillborn

to submerge

successful

suffocating

to sully

superscript

to supervise

to swagger

tardily

tardiness

threateningly

tightly

time-honored

title page

to torture

traditional

tranquil

transcendence

tongue-tied

unaccommodated

unaware

to unclog

unappeased

unchanging

unclaimed

uncomfortable

to uncurl

to undervalue

to undress

unearthly

uneducated

ungoverned

to unhand

unmitigated

unpublished

unreal

unsolicited

unswayed

unwillingness

upstairs

urging

useful

varied

vastly

viewless

vulnerable

watchdog

well-behaved

well-bred

well-read

whirligig

to widen

widowed

worn out

worthless

yelping

zany

Shakespeare also put common words together to make up phrases new to the English language. Many of these are still commonly used today:

all that glitters isn't gold

barefaced

be all and end all

break the ice

breathe one's last

brevity is the soul of wit

catch a cold

clothes make the man

disgraceful conduct

dog will have his day

eat out of house and home

elbowroom

fair play

fancy-free

flaming youth

foregone conclusion

frailty, thy name is woman

give the devil his due

green eyed monster

heart of gold

heartsick

hot-blooded

housekeeping

it smells to heaven

it's Greek to me

lackluster

leapfrog

live long day

long-haired

method in his madness

mind's eye

ministering angel

more sinned against than sinning

naked truth

neither a borrower nor a lender be

one fell swoop

pitched battle

primrose path

strange bedfellows

the course of true love never did run smooth

the lady doth protest too much

the milk of human kindness

to thine own self be true

too much of a good thing

towering passion

wear one's heart on one's sleeve

witching time of the night

Of the 17k+ words Shakespeare used, over 1700 are recorded there for the first time.